helm-secrets
A helm plugin that help manage secrets with Git workflow and store them anywhere (by jkroepke)
kubectx
Faster way to switch between clusters and namespaces in kubectl (by ahmetb)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
helm-secrets
Posts with mentions or reviews of helm-secrets.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-09.
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Simplified Deployment: A Deep Dive into Containerization and Helm
helm plugin install https://github.com/databus23/helm-diff helm plugin install https://github.com/aslafy-z/helm-git helm plugin install https://github.com/jkroepke/helm-secrets
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My recently deployed media apps in ArgoCD, migrating from Terraform.
I use Helm secrets which integrates Mozilla Sops to handle secrets in my Helm charts.
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How to Deploy and Scale Strapi on a Kubernetes Cluster 1/2
Use Helm Secrets.
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Secret Management in Kubernetes: Approaches, Tools, and Best Practices
ArgoCD users would have to build container images with SOPS baked in using Helm chart extensions or Kustomize extensions. Flux allows configuring sops directly into the Flux manifests.
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GitOps and Kubernetes – Secure Handling of Secrets
There is also the helm secrets plugin, which can also be used in ArgoCD with manual configuration.
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Disable auto sync at application level when managed by ApplicationSet.
Not sure if this is applicable for your use case, but you could use helm-secrets to fetch remote value files from https or git: https://github.com/jkroepke/helm-secrets/wiki/Values
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Goodbye Sealed Secrets, hello SOPS
$ helm plugin install https://github.com/jkroepke/helm-secrets --version v3.14.0
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How should I manage my Helm charts?
https://github.com/jkroepke/helm-secrets powered by sops
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Thoughts on using git-crypt
SOPS is great, and there are a lot of GitOps tools that either integrate with SOPS directly or make it relatively painless to integrate into your workflow, e.g. helm-secrets.
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How to manage passwords in Helm
SOPS and helm-secrets: https://github.com/jkroepke/helm-secrets
kubectx
Posts with mentions or reviews of kubectx.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-07.
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Building a Kubernetes Operator with the Operator Framework
kubectx: brew install kubectx
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Jenkins Agents On Kubernetes
default is where any actions which require a namespace will go into if one is not explicitly defined in a default setup (tools such as kubens can alter this behavior). In the context of Jenkins, namespaces are a useful way to allow isolation of individual Jenkins instances that want to utilize the same Kubernetes cluster. Creation of a namespace is a simple option to kubectl:
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Tool to manage kubeconfig configurations
Here you go: https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectx and https://kubecm.cloud/
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Setting kubectl context via env var
check out kubectx/kubens https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectx very handy tool to permanently switch context/namespace
- Minikube broke my Kubectl config
- Managing local cluster config
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How to Deploy and Scale Strapi on a Kubernetes Cluster 1/2
kubectx + kubens v0.9.4
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[ANN] Kele: Snappy Kubernetes cluster management in Emacs
For a peek at what's currently possible, visit the documentation site, in particular the Usage section. For this initial release, it has feature parity with kubectx and kubens and that's about it, but there's lots of room for growth.
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Injecting secrets from Vault into Helm charts with ArgoCD
I also encourage you to install kubectx + kubens to navigate Kubernetes easily.
- What daily terminal based tools are you using for cluster management?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing helm-secrets and kubectx you can also consider the following projects:
sealed-secrets - A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets
fzf-tab - Replace zsh's default completion selection menu with fzf!
vault-secrets-operator - Create Kubernetes secrets from Vault for a secure GitOps based workflow.
kubie - A more powerful alternative to kubectx and kubens
sops - Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets
kubeswitch - The kubectx for operators.
argocd-operator - A Kubernetes operator for managing Argo CD clusters.
kubecm - Manage your kubeconfig more easily.
argo-rollouts - Progressive Delivery for Kubernetes
kubectl-neat - Clean up Kubernetes yaml and json output to make it readable
hull - The incredible HULL - Helm Uniform Layer Library - is a Helm library chart to improve Helm chart based workflows
kubectl-trace - Schedule bpftrace programs on your kubernetes cluster using the kubectl